cliffhanger in pennsylvania. the trump endorsed tv doctor, mehmet oz, is neck and neck with david mccormick. we ll break down the former president s election night wins and losses as he s now pressuring dr. oz to declare victory before the last votes are counted. and another chilling twist in the buffalo shooting massacre. we re now learning that the suspected gunman revealed his racist attack plans online some 30 minutes before the deadly rampage. and that s prompting a new state investigation. there s a lot to discuss when the mayor of buffalo joins us live this hour. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, ukrainian forces are within miles of their enemy s backyard, after making significant new gains in the kharkiv region near the russian border. cnn s nick paton walsh is on the front line. every inch of respite from russian shelling here comes at grotesque cost. what
tonight, the nation is turning to pennsylvania, a major battleground in american politics, from the three rivers in pittsburgh, to the striking green home of the capitol building in harrisburg, heart of government in the commonwealth, to historic independence hall in philadelphia, those across pence im , pennsylvania, are making choice to influence the presidential race. i m jake tapper and we re standing by for results in what is sure to be an eventful election. the political spotlight on key primary races in pennsylvania, north carolina, kentucky, idaho and oregon. in phil pennsylvania, north carolina republican senators retiring seats, tonight, we ll bring more to the direction of the two major parties, also a significant new test of former president trump s grip on the republican party and president biden s sway over the democrats. as both weigh a potential rematch in 2024. perhaps the biggest test of the trump factor is his pick in pennsylvania republican former tv dr. m
a teacher was killed. a taxi driver just to mention a few. and celestine cheney, survivor of breast cancer and brain aneurysms. i m sorry we re talking under these circumstances. can you just tell us a little bit about your mom? what was she like? oh, she was a beautiful person, outgoing, life of the party, you know? strong woman. she raised a single son by herself, you know? she was a beautiful person. and she must have loved her grand children. she definitely loved her grand children. how many grand kids does she have? six. wow. and one great grand. wow. that s amazing. and i know your family has said that she just would like to spread joy wherever she went. yep. that was her. she just was the life of the party, happy person. i mean, for for you know, she s a survivor of breast cancer, two brain aneurysms three brain aneurysms. three? wow. how are you how are you dealing with all this? day by day. i understand your mom was at the store wi
white supremacy. president biden and the first lady are headed to buffalo tomorrow and the tributes are already pouring in for the victims who were killed, all black americans, ranging in age from 32 to 86. the former buffalo fire commissioner and son of one of the murder victims, ruth whitfield, speaking out against the hate and racism that investigators say motivated this shooter. what are we supposed to do with all of this anger, all of this pain? i can tell you, this was an easy decision for us to go public. we re a private family. this was not easy for us. but how else could we honor our mother, how else can we uphold the things she put in us, the things she believed in? how else can we do that? what else are we supposed to do, he says, with all of this pain. and i know you re learning more about what the shooter had planned. yeah, we learned this from the buffalo police commissioner. he told me this morning there s some documentation that the shooter had plans t
journalist. and elon musk sends twitter stock into a frenzy regarding his multi-billion takeover of the company. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with dkim brunhuber. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says more than a thousand towns and villages have been taken from the russian forces and that the russians are paying a heavy price for their aggression. translator: today we can report on 200 downed military aircraft. russia has not lost so many aircraft in any war in decades, and russia has lost almost 27,000 soldiers. ukraine also says russian troops continue to retreat from around the city of kharkiv in the north. further south, ukraine claim it is successfully blocked a russian advance at a key river in the donbas, that it destroyed 70 armed vehicles, including tanks. about 30 tanks were left stranded after make bing the crossing. the pentagon says secretary lloyd austin again appealed for a cease-fire and to keep the lines of communication open